Well, it is good to hear that there likely isn't a patent problem with the SATA functionality of the card. Hopefully the filed bug will be addressed, and support added to the AHCI driver.
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Vladimir Kotal <vladimir.ko...@sun.com>wrote: > Brandon High wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Vladimir Kotal > <vladimir.ko...@sun.com<mailto: >> vladimir.ko...@sun.com>> wrote: >> >> Could you be more specific about the problems with 88SE9123, >> especially with SATA ? I am in the process of setting up a system >> with AD2SA6GPX1 HBA based on this chipset (at least according to the >> product pages [*]). >> >> >> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=marvell+9123+problems >> >> The problems seem to be mostly with the PATA controller that's built in. >> Regardless, Marvell no longer offers the 9123. Any vendor offering cards >> based on it is probably using chips bought as surplus or for recycling. >> > > I spent some time going through the past news about various motherboard > vendors delaying new products because of the PATA issue. According to the > Marvell PR there seems to be no issue with the SATA side of the chip. Other > than that (and the possible PCIe x1 scaling issue with SATA III) there > should be no problem with the card itself. > > However, the card does not work in OpenSolaris yet because of: > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6967746 > > > v. > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > -- Matt Urbanowski Graduate Student 5-51 Medical Sciences Building Dept. Of Cell Biology University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H7
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